a friendly ongoing collaboration with composer Istvàn Zelenka

Par les villages

June 14 2017

On June 14 2017, in Greensboro, NC a storm provoked an electrical shortage between 9pm and 12am. I grabbed my bari sax, sit on the front porch and improvised for about 25 minutes with the 'silence' (no electrical sounds, AC...), the rain, a barking dog, some cars...cautious not to be heard by the neighbors.

I then thought of Istvan's piece 'A l'entrée du village'

I recorded the text and then created a Max/MSP patch with reads randomly with five players the bari sax sound file beside the text.

Here is a fixed version (among an infinity) of the piece.

Throughout the process, I couldn't help myself but thinking of Peter Handke's book 'Par les villages'

You can download the Max/MSP patch which will allow you to play (perform) as many different random versions as you wish HERE